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tanaisemeh. 6 different CDs of power point slides. 500 image slides and 200 map slides each. I am so dead. I hate Powerpoint. Hate hate hate. I also had to create about 30 slides of various video and such, and put them into a couple of the chapters in 2 of the presentations. Presentations, I might add, with spelling errors. With factual errors. With just plain stupid wording. Not that I'm bitter, but the people who wrote this stuff got paid better than I did.
I love discovering common tastes in music. I was hanging out in the kitchen today, since I could watch people coming in and out, and know that I wouldn't get snuck up on at the wrong moment. So while I'm there, i wanted music. and there's a CD sleeve thing, and I pull it over and start going through it and oh my god, it was nearly perfect. Pete. Old 97's. Rhett. Better than Ezra. The Cranberries. I put on The Day I Forgot, and danced myself all over the room there. I talked to chris, the CD ended, I was fiddling around, and B came in and I practically pounced him about the good music. His music. I could swoon right now. The only bad thing is that the stereo doesn't play burned CDs, and most of his stuff there is burned, and while I have just about all the music he doesn't have but wishes he did, it's mostly on my computer, and thus not helpful. But damn. We put Pete back on, and every time I would find myself singing along, I'd glance up and he would be too. It was great. I'll have to loan him my discman, cause he needs to be able to listen to good music while he cooks, and nothing tops musicforthemorningafter.
I love discovering common tastes in music. I was hanging out in the kitchen today, since I could watch people coming in and out, and know that I wouldn't get snuck up on at the wrong moment. So while I'm there, i wanted music. and there's a CD sleeve thing, and I pull it over and start going through it and oh my god, it was nearly perfect. Pete. Old 97's. Rhett. Better than Ezra. The Cranberries. I put on The Day I Forgot, and danced myself all over the room there. I talked to chris, the CD ended, I was fiddling around, and B came in and I practically pounced him about the good music. His music. I could swoon right now. The only bad thing is that the stereo doesn't play burned CDs, and most of his stuff there is burned, and while I have just about all the music he doesn't have but wishes he did, it's mostly on my computer, and thus not helpful. But damn. We put Pete back on, and every time I would find myself singing along, I'd glance up and he would be too. It was great. I'll have to loan him my discman, cause he needs to be able to listen to good music while he cooks, and nothing tops musicforthemorningafter.
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Methinks...
Date: 2004-07-01 05:34 am (UTC)>Presentations, I might add, with spelling errors. With factual >errors. With just plain stupid wording. Not that I'm bitter, but >the people who wrote this stuff got paid better than I did.
Heh. When I worked at BBH they'd send out fliers and pamphlets, what have you. Seriously expensive, full color, graphic design, the works. I was soooo tempted to send them to the higher up's with all my corrections in red pen. Because, seriously, if I'd been a client and they'd sent me something with those kind of errors...I would have taken my business elsewhere. By and large, business people do NOT know how to write.
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Re: Methinks...
Date: 2004-07-01 06:55 am (UTC)And I just discovered that despite the aproximately 4200 slides that I looked at yesterday, or possibly because of, though this was one of the first things I did, so probably not, I missed about 4 slides that are messed up. *kills self*. So the CDs aren't finished like they were supposed to be.
"musicforthemorningafter" is Pete Yorn's first CD, though I think it's also the sort of thing you're thinking about. And you should call me this evening, or get on IM, and I'll tell you somethings I'm not writing down.
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Date: 2004-07-01 10:29 am (UTC)I had a kinda similar experience in Singapore for the publishing/translation company I was at. :< They hired me to edit English texts. Then it got time for the company to do its own pamphlets and help other companies including a business school write their booklets. I was in utter despair. It wasn't just the grammar mistakes and word misusage, I was surrounded by higher-ups who all thought pomposity and super-inflated text filled with made-up-on-the-spur-of-the-moment jargon was the way to reach out to potential customers. My boss also really liked the word "Virtual" to refer to things high-tech. (It made for some really laughable text, but no one believed me.)
All my attempts to improve the company and business school advertising/publicity copy got nowhere, because it was written by people who hadn't been trained to write, nor were they very learned in English for that matter. But they were full of themselves because hey, they were bosses. :P Anyway, I wasn't at the job very long. The boss started employing his own relatives to replace the staff.